694 private quotes tagged sports

“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.” — Blaise Pascal

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“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.” — Satchel Paige

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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Sports is like a war without the killing.” — Ted Turner

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“My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'” — Peyton Manning

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“I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.” — Rachel McAdams

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“Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.” — Bill Veeck

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“Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.” — Tiger Woods

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“The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.” — Dean Smith

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“You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.” — Charles Barkley

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“My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.” — Bob Seger

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“What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.” — Shaun White

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“The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.” — Carl Lewis

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“When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.” — Lisa Loeb

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“God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.” — Eric Liddell

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“I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.” — Carrie Underwood

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“Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.” — Junior Johnson

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“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.” — Wayne Gretzky

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